This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive.

This series of 9 segments features Lindependence 08 organizers Larry Cafiero and Ken Starks talking about what Lindependence 08 is. Namely, it is a series of installfests and demos held at the Felton Presbyterian Church. The purpose of these events is to persuade the entire town of 6,000 people in Felton to move over to Free Open Source Software. Ken and Larry acknowledge that this will be a tough job, but they talk about why they want to give it a try, and how far toward that goal they think they will go.

The transcript for this segment is here:

http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv538_ken_larry_boadm_01_002.txt

Some of these segments stop abruptly, due to the fact that we are using dvgrab with default settings to capture footage. Dvgrab chunks out video into 4.51 minute segments equalling 1 GB by default. There is a saying in the Free Open Source Software society: "Let the code decide". We have let the code decide the default file size for most of the footage up here on the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection.

This series of 9 segments was shot in the very beautiful Felton Presbyterian Church on highway 9 in lovely "downtown" Felton, California, a town with only 1 traffic light.

This series of 9 segments is part of the Twin Brothers Of Different Mother series, which is a joke about how these two men are very different, and yet collaborating closely to advance freedom in cyberspace. As this series shows, Ken Starks identifies himself as staunchly conservative, and Larry Cafiero identifies himself as intensely liberal. One of the fundamental themes of the Digital Tipping Point is that freedom in cyberspace is a such an important value that people of many languages, nations, and backbrounds who are otherwise foreign and maybe even otherwise antagonistic toward one another can and do come together to work for freedom in cyberspace. In short, Free Software builds bridges for peace, prosperity, and creativity around the world. This series of segments captures that phenomenon in the microcosm of the tiny town of Felton, California and the work of these two Twin Brothers Of Different Mothers.

Ken Starks blogs regularly under the pen name of helios.

This footage is raw, rough edited video. It is our source code. It has no music, no transitions, and no special effects. It is offered to the world as the raw material for you to make your own movie about Free Open Source Software.
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeld@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.

The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com.

Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:

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and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 002, Ken Starks and Larry Cafiero, BOADM
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